Mad Detective trailer

Johnnie To's Mad Detective is coming to the US. This HK flick is set to be released by IFC Film on July 18 at their IFC Center in NYC and on IFC' video-on-demand service. If you can't wait til July, you can catch Mad Detective tonite during the New York Asian Film Festival at the IFC Center. Get more info for the screening on Sunday, June 22 @ 7:20pm here. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, there will also be a screening Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley as part of the Johnnie To film series on June 27 @ 8:40pm.

Mad Detective synopsis

A missing police pistol is connected to a recent series of heists and murders. Its owner WONG (Lee Kwok Lun) vanished earlier while pursuing a suspect in the mountains. His partner CHI-WAI (Lam Ka Tung) miraculously returned unharmed. Hotshot Regional Crime Unit inspector HO (Andy On) is in charge if the serial murder investigation. He knows the only chance he has in cracking the case is to ask for help from his mentor/former boss BUN (Lay Ching Wan). Bun is recognized as a gifted criminal profiler until he went mad several years ago. Bun has the gift to see into a person’s inner personality. This is where the subconscious desires, emotion and mental state are laid bare. For Bun, they are the key to unlocking a killer’s identity. But for Ho, Bun’s unorthodox approach has put doubt in his mind. What begins as a quest for answer has now taken a schizophrenic turn where truth and lies, reality and delusions intertwine.

Watch the Mad Detective trailer